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About This Quiz
Sometimes it feels like Google is taking over the world. And rumors are always swirling about the next new Google development. Do you know which ones are true?
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About This Quiz
Sometimes it feels like Google is taking over the world. And rumors are always swirling about the next new Google development. Do you know which ones are true?
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
fact
True. The two met as PhD students at Stanford.
fiction
almost fact: Page and Brin supposedly make hefty annual payments to an anonymous former Stanford student whom they ousted in the early days of the company.
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Google’s first official investor was Andy Bechtolsheim, who contributed $1 million.
fact
fiction
almost fact: Bechtolsheim actually gave them $100,000.
Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, gave Page and Brin $100,000 in 1998.
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Google stock was offered for $400 a share at the company’s IPO in 2004.
fact
fiction
The stock price was $85 at the IPO in April 2004.
almost fact: The IPO was in 2004, but shares went for $500.
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In 2006, the verb “google” was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
fact
True.
fiction
almost fact: It was added, but in 2004.
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Google’s Dow Jones ticker symbol is GOOG.
fact
fiction
almost fact: The ticker symbol is right, but Google is a NASDAQ stock.
Google is traded on the NASDAQ.
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In 2006, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion, cash.
fact
fiction
almost fact: It was $1.65 billion, but in stock.
That would have been pretty mind-blowing if it had been cash, right?
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Google will be unveiling a cell phone service in 2010.
fact
fiction
Nope, not true.
almost fact: The date will probably be more like 2012.
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In an attempt to lower energy use, Google bought herds of goats to graze on the grass at company headquarters.
fact
True. In addition to saving on lawnmowing, the goats’ munching also lowers the danger of brush fires.
fiction
almost fact: It’s sheep that keep the Google grass under control.
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One of Google’s famous April Fool’s Day product launches was the fake energy drink “Google Juice.”
fact
fiction
almost fact: It was actually called “Google Gulp.”
It was Google Gulp. Other fakeout products were “Google Lunar” and “Google Romance.”
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin are in negotiations to have the Google office complex annexed from the city of Mountain View, Calif., and renamed “Googleville.”
fact
fiction
Not true, but it wouldn’t be totally shocking, would it?
almost fact: The name is actually going to be “Googleplex.”
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